Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation: Essential Cranial Procedures for the Chiropractic Practice
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.
In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.
This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.
What You’ll Learn
- Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
- Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
- Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
- How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
- Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals
Resources Provided
- Video class modules
- Evaluation & technique presentations
- Practical demonstrations
- Calls to action (CTAs)
- Complete PDF workbooks
- Full transcriptions of video classes
- Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson
Why Take This Course?
- Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
- Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
- Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
- Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
- Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice
Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.
Course Contents
12 Modules | 12 CTAs
Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion
Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate
Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions
Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
Class 11 – Tongue-Tie
Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence. Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession. Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.
Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.
Feedback From Our Students
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Dr. Brian Petrie
My three takeaways:
1) The program was a wake-up call to me regarding. Having been a chiropractor for 30 years only focusing on the spine and ignoring a critical aspect of human dynamics. 2) Prior to this course, I thought I was an above average chiropractor, but this course taught me how little I know about human function. 3) I believe courses like cranial function mechanics should be taught in chiropractic colleges.This course made me realize how little I understand about biomechanics and human function and the impact of cranial structures with their descending patterns can impact the entire spine and if not addressed, the same patterns repeat themselves and the patients never get better despite what I do as a chiropractor. Personally, knowing this information now makes me feel I have been providing many patients a disservice and motivates me to learn and understand cranial dynamics. So, it was a very enlightened course for me
I have begun using some of these cranial mobilization procedures on post CFR inflation techniques and even though I have not yet been confident and proficient with the procedures, I have found most patients find them very relaxing and ease their anxiety form the CFR procedure
I might not recommend this course to someone who does not have any prior knowledge with cranial work and have them start at the basics. I feel that this was more of an advanced course for me which is why I began to go back to basics and enrolled in the SOT course with you. The certification in CFR, although a profound and effective technique, has only taught me how much I really do not know.
I would like to have some hands-on techniques to practice the mobilization techniques because, although practicing with skull models, I was still unsure I was palpating the correct structures. So, some hands-on training would have been a great compliment. Also, this was the first time I have taken a course like this which delivered course material in a slow drip fashion, so it took a while to get used to the format. I would like to say thank you Dr. Rosen for your phenomenal work and making it available and how you have enlightened me to become a better provider!!
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Dr. Robert LaRusso
The repetition is so helpful. The little nuances…low occiput is the external temporal…the emphasis on the mandibular points on which side to adjust…etc! The integration of how one indicator can influence and create so many other “things” causing a lot of neurological issues.
This program made me a much improved, aware, and detailed chiropractor. Personally…shows me that I sorely need work!!!
There are many instances that occur everyday! The “work” is a testament in actually achieving results by just doing the “work! “
YES, I would recommend this program…something I do at all the seminars. Simple…Tools, Integration, and Passion…
Simply the BEST!
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Dr. John Erickson
My three takeaways from this course:
Slow release of modules accommodates busy schedules. Doctor Sharing allows for communication with the Doctors to discuss real-life situations Dr. Marty knows his stuff – he is a credit to the profession.This course has helped demystify the TMJ not only in adults, but in the peds patient. People need options for care of the TMJ and there hasn’t been anything out there on the alternative side quite like this course.
Early in the course, while working with patients and trying to apply what was learned, I noticed an improvement of jaw motion, decreased pain, and decreased clicking. Later I realized that I hadn’t even done the adjustment correctly and still had improvement. Since I have fine-tuned my adjustment.
I would recommend this course if you want a slow release of info at a pace that wouldn’t be overwhelming to a doctor with a busy practice and life.
Thanks for the obvious time and effort put into the course.
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